Foreign Relations: Beyond Skybolt

The sessions began in a dismal political climate. At issue between
President Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. meeting in
Nassau last week, were questions that went to the nature not only of
Anglo-American amity but also of the entire Western alliance. But as
the talks broke up at week's end, the sun was peeking through the clouds.

In specific dispute between Kennedy and Macmillan was the all-but-final
U.S. decision to scrap the Skybolt missile project (TIME, Dec. 21). The
U.S. had promised to supply Britain with at least 100 Skybolts, and the
British, with no long-range...